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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • I picked it up very quickly. Swapping edge and linking turns in a few runs and jumping baby kickers and doing small board slides on day 2.

    The only hard part by far is using T-bars. I still fall on them 😞 Even in the kids area lol. And yet I just did a few runs of my first black and only went down on that twice.

    The thing that clicked for me was to look further ahead, keep up pace, and stop thinking. Kind of clicked in minutes after that.









  • Do usual dev mode shit…

    1. You then have to confirm that you aren’t being coached/guided/instructed by a bad actor to turn off the security measures.

    2. This is followed by a device restart and re-authentication that “cuts off any remote access or active phone calls a scammer might be using to watch what you’re doing.”

    3. A required “Security wait” takes one day to “confirm that this is really you who’s making this change with our biometric authentication (fingerprint or face unlock) or device PIN.” This is a one-time wait.

    4. Afterwards, you can install apps from unverified developers indefinitely, while there’s also a 7-day “Turn on temporarily” option.

    I don’t think the wait is necessary. If someone were to continue being scammed after a reboot, they’d continue to be scamme tomorrow. An additional education piece after the reboot would be more effective.






  • Yeah, I do a lot of midi and mic stuff these days as it’s ended up being faster in production to play than to UI tweak. I’ve found Reaper’s “on the fly” for recording so much better (once learned and the brain clicks) and it’s phenomenal score mapping/creation out of the box 😙👌

    Just little things like being able to build macros for single key presses with a wireless keyboard behind the e-drums orplugged up guitar, it’s so streamlined and fast.

    But as far as effects go, if they’re not coming from my hardware, I can load in whatever plugins I need. I’ve heard some older systems can struggle with VSTs in Linux, but never had an issue. Plus it only takes a single line and a minute to load in a low latency kernal, specifically for real-time processing of live controllers. No more fucking around with ASIO4ALL setups lol

    But, yes, Abelton out of the box, much like FL, comes with better native stuff. However, I rarely use native these days as some brilliant nerd or production company out there has made better stuff I can just load in. The emphasis on the W in DAW is very proniunced with Reaper.


  • I didn’t want to go back to Windows so bad, I actually taught myself Reaper lol. It’s by far the best DAW I’ve used (former FL and Abelton user,).

    Not gonna like, though, it was a pretty rough ride and steep initial learning curve like all creative programs be. I could like it to playing the guitar for ten years and suddenly you have to play left-handed. Like, you can so do it, but fuuuuuuuu


  • Or just select Windows when booting up. I do that simply for 365 when remote working. Clean Windows install on its own drive and somehow it still gives me grief 🤣

    Today Outlook and Power BI didn’t open. Spent about twenty minutes updating, reinstalling, rebooting, and nothing. Had a meeting, reboot, all works again. Silly me never completed the random ritual in order.


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    Look, to be perfectly honest, I’ve had to do far less “computery” bullshit on Linux. After about six months of everything just working fast and flawless, I realised Windows is the OS that requires a pretty high level of computer literacy. Even installing Linux is a simple and quick breeze compared to Windows.

    All it took was a final, “Oh, for fuck’s sake! That’s it! I’m fucking done!” moment. I just didn’t want to do it anymore. Never had one since. Using a computer is a nice thing again.

    I 100% recommend Linux for grandparents!